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Understanding the Self - SOCA2211
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Social Sciences and International Studies
 
 
Course Outline: http://sociology.arts.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 18 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: GENT1211
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Surveys and explores classic theories of self and subjectivity. Includes symbolic interactionism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, feminism, phenomenology, ecology. Issues considered: identity and difference, representations of the self, the relation between the self and the social, control and dependence, discipline, consciousness and the unconscious, integration and unintegration, memory and imagination, with a focus on theorists including GH Mead, Goffman, Foucault, Cixous, Freud, Jung, Winnicott, Merleau-Ponty, Sennett, and Buber.

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